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Three cups of tea : One man's mission to promote peace ... one school at a time

Mortenson, Greg.

Three cups of tea : One man's mission to promote peace ... one school at a time - New York. Viking. 9/25/2006 - 338 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew

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Girls' schools -- Pakistan.
Girls' schools -- Afghanistan.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Afghanistan.

--Mortanson, Greg.